Opening Closet X

More and more lesbians and gays are coming out and speaking up while still teenagers (and younger).Ý These films portray the full range of what this can be like - from painfully difficult to joyously easy.

 

Curtain No. 7, Directed by Oran Adler, ÝIsrael, SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIEREÝÝ

An animated short that follows the plight of a gay teen competing on a very unusual game show.

Jake: Today I Became a Man,

Directed by Stacey Foiles, United States, SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIEREÝÝ Probably the youngest drag queen ever to hit the screen, Jake's world is captured on tape from his toddler years to his Bar Mitzvah.Ý Articulate and self-aware, he's a spandex-wearing performer who startles us with his clarity and charm. Director Stacey Foiles will attend the screening.

Opening Closet X: A Voice for Queer Youth, Directed by Diana Polish & Max Kelly, United States, SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE

Gay and lesbian teens pick up the camera for themselves and show the world what their lives are truly like in this youth-produced video documentary. Unmediated by any adult filmmakes, this is the real deal.

One of Them, Directed by Stewart Main, New Zealand, SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE

The bittersweet story of the volatile friendship between two schoolboy friends in 1965 Auckland, New Zealand, the film follows Jamie and LemmyÝ as they confront their hidden homosexual desires.Ý Both are dandies,Ý and at least one of them dreams of escaping the doldrums of their oppressive lives:Ý Jamie's flight of fancy is to become a famous Paris dress designer.Ý Director Stewart Main (Desperate Remedies) uses a range of off-center cinematic techniques, from languid slow-motion to flashes of gruesome fantasies to reverberating parental voices, that reflect the unsettling and often painful truths about our teenage years as we really experience them.

1:00 PM Screening $10